Jan Patrik Krasny

(b. 8 May 1955, Czechoslovakia)

Lev a meč (Lion and Sword), 1989-90

Jan Patrik Krásný graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he had studied from 1976 to 1982. During his studies, he contributed to fanzines like Kombajn and Vokno. He was attracted by comics since his childhood and has published several of them in the magazine Kometa from 1989 throughout the early 1990s, including the serial 'Tajemství Enny'.

Svatební košile (Kometa, 1991)

He is mainly an illustrator, though. He has created more than 400 cover-pages of mainly sci-fi and fantasy books for various Czech publishers. Recently he has been devoted to computer graphics. His works are exhibited in private collections and galleries within the Czech Republic and abroad, and have won prizes on several occasions.